The document discusses the emergence of ubiquitous and pervasive computing environments enabled by developments in molecular electronics, distributed computing, and standards. It describes a future where billions of tiny computational devices are embedded everywhere in the environment like pigment in paint, making computer networks the basic fabric of daily life.

1. Locative Media and Responsive Environments IMD Seminar 22 April 2009 LFG/JW

2. Interface

10. Everyware

11. "...experimental programs seem to indicate that molecular electronics is a possible avenue to overcoming the limits of increasing density in silicon chips, while ushering in an era of computers 100 billion times as fast as a Pentium microprocessor; this would make it possible to pack the computing power of a hundred 1999 computer workstations into a space the size of a grain of salt. Based on these technologies, computer scientists envisage the possibility of computing environments where billions of microscopic information-processing devices will be spread everywhere 'like pigment in the wall paint.' If so, then computer networks will be, materially speaking, the fabric of our lives.“ -Manuel Castells, Rise of the Network Society, 53.

12. "...experimental programs seem to indicate that molecular electronics is a possible avenue to overcoming the limits of increasing density in silicon chips, while ushering in an era of computers 100 billion times as fast as a Pentium microprocessor; this would make it possible to pack the computing power of a hundred 1999 computer workstations into a space the size of a grain of salt. Based on these technologies, computer scientists envisage the possibility of computing environments where billions of microscopic information-processing devices will be spread everywhere 'like pigment in the wall paint.' If so, then computer networks will be, materially speaking, the fabric of our lives.“ -Manuel Castells, Rise of the Network Society, 53.

13. "...experimental programs seem to indicate that molecular electronics is a possible avenue to overcoming the limits of increasing density in silicon chips, while ushering in an era of computers 100 billion times as fast as a Pentium microprocessor; this would make it possible to pack the computing power of a hundred 1999 computer workstations into a space the size of a grain of salt. Based on these technologies, computer scientists envisage the possibility of computing environments where billions of microscopic information-processing devices will be spread everywhere 'like pigment in the wall paint.' If so, then computer networks will be, materially speaking, the fabric of our lives.“ -Manuel Castells, Rise of the Network Society, 53.

15. Ubiquitous Computing

16. Pervasive Computing

18. Interoperable

20. Emergent

22. Christmas

25. December 25th, 1990

27. "I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A ‘Semantic Web’, which should make this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines. The ‘intelligent agents’ people have touted for ages will finally materialize." -Tim Berners-Lee

28. Early Internet Basic Web Web 2.0

30. Standards

32. Emergent

34. Semantic Web + Ubicomp =

35. Internet of Things

37. First Gen

38. Passive Things

41. AR Toolkit QR Code (Japan, China, UK) Datamatrix (USA DOD, Germany) Visual Codes D-touch Spotcode

42. QR Codes: Survey of recent projects Add to Friends QR Code Facebookmashup “Add to Friends” is a Facebook application that enables users to add friends by snapping photos of custom QR codes associated with Facebook profiles. Facebook app URL: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=21352510322 More info: http://www.etre.com/blog/2008/02/facebook_add_to_friends_qr_code_t_shirt/

43. QR Codes: Survey of recent projects P8TCH Velcro-backed QR-code URL patch “Think of it as a TinyURL you can wear. The QR Code on the p8tch is a URL. If you scan the code with your iPhone, Mobile Safari will take you directly to that URL. If it's a Google Maps link, your iPhone will take you directly to the map. If it's a YouTube link, you'll see the movie fullscreen. Cool, right?” More info: http://p8tch.com/

44. QR Codes: Survey of recent projects Semapedia.org QR Code Wikipedia mashup “Our goal is to connect the virtual and physical world by bringing the right information from the internet to the relevant place in physical space.” More info: http://www.semapedia.org/

45. QR Codes: Survey of recent projects Pet Shop Boys - Integral QR Code-enriched music video/activism initiative “The QR Code links in the video are a catalogue of online content about issues of civil liberties, as well as links that will give you the opportunity to get involved in campaigning against the erosion of our personal freedom.” More info: http://www.petshopboys.co.uk/browser.aspx?page=petheads.integral

46. QR Codes: Survey of recent projects Kaywa Pixel Scarf Fashion accessory Wearing a QR code confers the wearer with mystery and geekitude, signaling social niche position on both sides of the scanning-moment. More info: http://lendorff.kaywa.com/

47. Related tagging/mobile/ubicomp projects Spellbinder Image-recognition tagging/mobile AR “invisible grafitti” “Scottish researchers are turning to camera phones to help bridge the virtual and real worlds. Using image-matching algorithms the researchers have found a way to adorn the real world with digital content. The technology has already been used to create a guide of Edinburgh that allows people to find virtual artworks placed around the city using their mobile.” More info: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6938244.stm Project page: http://blue.caad.ed.ac.uk/branded/stageone/

48. Second Gen

49. Active Things

54. Standards

56. Emergent

57. New Relationships

59. Bruce Sterling

60. Spimes

62. trackable

63. findable

64. recyclable

65. uniquely identified

67. Sensing

69. Profiling

71. Enabling

73. Emergent?

74. “Can an intelligent house fall in love with the house next door,” asks Gold. “Can they have baby houses? Is an architect a trained “womb” for houses, or more crudely, is an architect how a house makes another house? Does an architect feel like she/he is violating fundamental forces of evolution if she/he does not include the latest new technology in the house she/he next gives birth to? Do you believe in progress? Is a suburban house of today better than a terrace house in London in 1850 which was better than a thatched country cottage in 1700 which was better than the tepees and mud huts that Columbus found in the New World? Is the house that Donald Trump lives in better than the house you live in? If you were an architect and you designed an intelligent house, would the house’s own happiness matter to you? If the couple that bought the house you designed got a divorce, do you think you should be libel for damages?” -Rich Gold

75. Design Process

78. Brute force

80. Modularity

82. Too Literal

83. The New Actual/The New Virtual

84. Freedom has been obliterated, liquidated by liberation; truth has been supplanted by verification; the community has been liquidated and absorbed by communication … Everywhere we see a paradoxical logic: the idea is destroyed by its own realization, by its own excess. -Jean Baudrillard